Middleton (Stanley) Holiday
£195
London, Hutchinson, 1974.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, with publisher’s promotional bellyband.
The second printing of the joint Booker Prize Winner (with The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer) in 1974.
In stock
Bookseller’s small label on front pastedown; jacket neatly price-clipped; bellyband slightly worn.
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